One Night Stand: The American Design Club Celebrates the NYCxDESIGN Festival 2026
There’s nothing punny about the collective’s installation of “what we bring to bed”
The NYCxDESIGN Festival returns to the city from 14-20 May 2026, serving as New York’s official design week with over 250 events spanning 10 different disciplines. A highlight of this year’s festival is the One Night Stand: What We Bring to Bed installation, presented by the American Design Club in partnership with the design-forward citizenM Bowery hotel in the Lower East Side. Kiel Mead, the director of the American Design Club, describes the vision for the show as an “exhibition exploring the objects, rituals, and identities shaping our space as we prepare for sleep.”
The show features over 40 unique objects designed to inhabit the intimate space of the nightstand. Designers were invited to interpret the theme through six core categories:
- The Nightstand: The “stage” for nightly and morning rituals
- Light: Objects that provide orientation and comfort in the dark, such as small lamps and glowing chargers
- Hydration: Vessels for water and skin care, including carafes, bottles and moisturizers
- Maintenance: Tools for daily care, including glasses containers, sleep masks and hair ties
- Mind: Items that help gather thoughts or create atmosphere, like books, trays, candles and diffusers.
- Health: Objects for bodily regulation, including medication organizers, vitamins and alarms
The exhibition showcases a diverse group of talented people presenting work: Daniel Michaelik, Nicholas Baker, Joseph Benanti (Benanti Designs), Studio Osra, Tennant New York, Studio Bindri by Balqis Indriyani, Jayendra Harsh, KALE Studio, Bella Boak / Object Theory, Studio Daae, Expo Design Inc., Evan Landau, Lisa Koyama Max, EndoExo Studio, Michael Bambino Design, Brendan Keim Design, Mimi Kirmaci & Burcu Salihoglu (Bu+Mu), Kahen Design (Ryan Kahen), Camber Atelier, MaryAngela Sanchez Rocca. Bumki Song, Sihan Chen, FionaW Studio, Sarah Feingold (Tinebird), PTR Design Studio, Brendan Seyka, HQ Object, Mokko Seishin & Amee Allsop Studio, Tim Richartz, Jessica Hyun Song, Studio Ejarque, Sophia Haase, Studio Concordia, Alice Tedesco, Leadoff Studio, Hanna Anonen, Streicher Goods,Eric Weil Designs, Eamon Murphy, The Mungstars, Super Design Studio, Standard Day Studio, Henry Merker, Max Hausmann, Will Zhang, Christian Borger, and Peg Woodworking.
Located in the lobby and lower lounge of the citizenM Bowery hotel, located at 189 Bowery at Delancey Street, the exhibition will be open to the public daily from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm throughout the festival. This installation marks the 21st exhibition produced by the American Design Club, an organization founded in 2008 to provide a platform for emerging and independent product designers.
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